Contributions of GRACE to understanding climate change

Byron D. Tapley; Michael M. Watkins; Frank Flechtner; Christoph Reigber; Srinivas Bettadpur; Matthew Rodell; Ingo Sasgen; James S. Famiglietti; Felix W. Landerer; Don P. Chambers; John T. Reager; Alex S. Gardner; Himanshu Save; Erik R. Ivins; Sean C. Swenson; Carmen Boening; Christoph Dahle; David N. Wiese; Henryk Dobslaw; Mark E. Tamisiea; Isabella Velicogna

doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0456-2

Contributions of GRACE to understanding climate change

Byron D. Tapley, Michael M. Watkins, Frank Flechtner, Christoph Reigber, Srinivas Bettadpur, Matthew Rodell, Ingo Sasgen, James S. Famiglietti, Felix W. Landerer, Don P. Chambers, John T. Reager, Alex S. Gardner, Himanshu Save, Erik R. Ivins, Sean C. Swenson, Carmen Boening, Christoph Dahle, David N. Wiese, Henryk Dobslaw, Mark E. TamisieaIsabella Velicogna

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Time-resolved satellite gravimetry has revolutionized understanding of mass transport in the Earth system. Since 2002, the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) has enabled monitoring of the terrestrial water cycle, ice sheet and glacier mass balance, sea level change and ocean bottom pressure variations, as well as understanding responses to changes in the global climate system. Initially a pioneering experiment of geodesy, the time-variable observations have matured into reliable mass transport products, allowing assessment and forecast of a number of important climate trends, and improvements in service applications such as the United States Drought Monitor. With the successful launch of the GRACE Follow-On mission, a multi-decadal record of mass variability in the Earth system is within reach.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	358-369
Number of pages	12
Journal	Nature Climate Change
Volume	9
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0456-2
State	Published - May 1 2019

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Tapley, B. D., Watkins, M. M., Flechtner, F., Reigber, C., Bettadpur, S., Rodell, M., Sasgen, I., Famiglietti, J. S., Landerer, F. W., Chambers, D. P., Reager, J. T., Gardner, A. S., Save, H., Ivins, E. R., Swenson, S. C., Boening, C., Dahle, C., Wiese, D. N., Dobslaw, H., ... Velicogna, I. (2019). Contributions of GRACE to understanding climate change. Nature Climate Change, 9(5), 358-369. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0456-2

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